drailed Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 I am looking into creating a excel spreed sheet that will be used by our company. The excel spreadsheet will be used for getting data (revision status) from a list of selected drawings. In excel you will select the file location and then the list of drawings that you would like the data from. Autocad might need to be opened but can run in the background. Now the main question once the code is completed in excel can it be used in Autocad 2013LT If I am confusing people basic idea. open excel file. run data extraction on selected cad files. sort data by drawing number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abraxus Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 autocad LT does not support lisp or VBA, so no, you would need the real version of autocad to do that but if you had the real version of autocad, that would be a very simple program to write Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven-g Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 How is the data stored in your drawing? is it attributes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjoseph75 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 You should be able to run a script from AutoCadLT and save data as CSV files, then open it in Excel. You need to workout how to extract the data depending on how it is stored (Table, attrubutes, plain text, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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